The latest issue of the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture (August 2025) has been published — see here. Its Table of Contents follows.
Scholar’s Corner: Confucianism in and for the Modern World: Philosophizing in the Era of AI
Heisook Kim
Articles
Should People Blame Sangje for Evil and Suffering?—Dasan Jeong Yakyong’s Reformulation of the Confucian Problem of Evil through His Re-interpretation of the Poem Tang
Andrew Ka Po Tam
Mencius as the Architect of Confucian Humanism in East Asia
Chun-chieh Huang
Jizha’s Dilemma: Rethinking Rang 讓 (“Renunciation”) in Confucian Moral and Political Philosophy
Max Junbo Tao
The Validity of the Confucian Three-Year Mourning Ritual System and Its Contemporary Adaptation
Kim, ShiDug
Western Missionaries’ Perception of the Confucian Notion of Li
Haeyoung Kim
Book Review
Jin Li, The Self in the West and East Asia: Being or Becoming
Subin Choi-Lee
Kudos to Subin Choi-Lee for the review, especially the section “The Risks of Cultural Binarism” and the “paradox of moral warmth”.
I’m so surprised when some authors (like François Jullien, Byung-Chul Han and others) criticize Western essentialism or thinking through binary oppositions in the same book where they do exactly that.
I certainly don’t deny any empirical data showing that there might be tendencies, or the value of creating that data. Prof. Li Jin has my academic respect for that. But I question the use of the empirical results. You can use a 70% result as saying that’s how the entire region thinks, or you can expose the interplay and disputes between the 70% and the various positions in the 30%, and then try to figure out strategies of cultural reproduction, survival as a minority, contradicting behavior in different aspects of life, etc. (much more interesting in my opinion.
The website keeps reloading and then crashing for me (regardless of which browser I use— so it’s clearly a problem on their end). I hope they fix it soon, since I’d like to read the articles!